Every system is down for the full year YoY if you're going to use that as a barometer so far, except the 360 (which is about even from last year) in North America and the DS in Japan (which is up YoY). Every other system in every market is down YoY so far for the full year.
Sony should rebound this fall and have a bigger fall ... a $100 price cut and a new model revision obviously will create a boost.
Nintendo I think is hit harder by the recession because casual shoppers are more likely to drop video games when the pay cheques at home get tighter, whereas hardcore gamers are likely to still find a way to keep on spending on gaming and the PS3/360 price drops will keep enticing them to make a little more room on their credit cards.
The industry is definitely not recession proof (unlike the movie industry which is way up this year), and I think Nintendo is taking the brunt of it right now. But they are still selling at a rate they could only dream of in the GameCube days and the DS will become the best selling game platform in history soon, and the Wii will overtake the NES as the best selling Nintendo console ever soon as well.
So Nintendo will be crying ... all the way to the bank.
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